In the women's Shot Put Indiana State's Felisha Johnson was 14th in the preliminaries, just barely missing the finals. One time Saluki Raven Saunders did make the final and will throw tonight in the finals

In the women's Hammer Throw DeAnna Price and Gwen Berry from SIU are throwing right now on nbcolympics.com

the Missouri State men's team (which was disbanded in 2006 sadly) had two former athletes competing in Rio. Jamial Rolle (Bahamas) and Fabian Florant (Netherlands) participated in the 100-meter dash and triple jump, respectively.

Rolle finished 64th overall in the fastest race at the Games (100-meter dash) with a time of 10.68 seconds to finish eighth in his heat

Florant competed in the triple jump in Rio on Monday (Aug. 15), finishing 12th in his flight and 22nd overall in the event with a leap of 16.51 meters.